You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.

To a great mind, nothing is little.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.